Nearly a year after its first mention on MemeStreams, the day is finally here.

Here's an excerpt, from the end of the "Words of Thanks" (aka Acknowledgments):

The many friends mentioned above, and some others not mentioned, form a "cloud" in which I float; sometimes I think of them as the "metropolitan area" of which I, construed narrowly, am just the zone inside the official city limits. Everyone has friends, and in that sense I am no different from anyone else, but this cloud is my cloud, and it somehow defines me, and I am proud of it and proud of them all. And so I say to this cloud of friends, with all my heart, "Thank you so very much, one and all!"